New Delhi, March 7 -- 15 years ago, I read and reviewed The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, which had just won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 2011. Mukhe... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- 22 decades ago, in 1705 CE, the founder of the Khalsa and tenth Guru Gobind Singh of the Sikhs sent a Zafarnama (epistle of victory) containing these iconic lines to the Mughal E... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- I began writing this review on the 15th of February, the day of Shivaratri 2026, when the Aghoris invoke the Bhoots, Pischaasas, and the Doms of the cremation grounds to join the... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- And thus, in 1929, the Panikkar family - which now included wife Gowri and three children, Parvathy, Madhusudan, and Devaki - arrived from the deep south to the geographically br... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 24 -- KM Panikkar (KMP) could not have asked for a better Boswell to document his life, for Narayani Basu has dug into details that even KMP may have forgotten in his very rich, eventf... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 3 -- My editors have asked me to pen my thoughts on the books that have resonated with me in the course of the year. After excluding the ones shortlisted for the VoW Book Awards in the... Read More